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28.Dd May 5, 2020
29.Dt THR_SELF 2
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm thr_self
33.Nd return thread identifier for the calling thread
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/thr.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn thr_self "long *id"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Fn thr_self
43system call stores the system-wide thread identifier for the current
44kernel-scheduled thread in the variable pointed by the argument
45.Va id .
46.Pp
47The thread identifier is an integer in the range from
48.Dv PID_MAX + 2
49(100001) to
50.Dv INT_MAX .
51The thread identifier is guaranteed to be unique at any given time,
52for each running thread in the system.
53After the thread exits, the identifier may be reused.
54.Sh RETURN VALUES
55If successful,
56.Fn thr_self
57will return zero, otherwise \-1 is returned, and
58.Va errno
59is set to indicate the error.
60.Sh ERRORS
61The
62.Fn thr_self
63operation may return the following errors:
64.Bl -tag -width Er
65.It Bq Er EFAULT
66The memory pointed to by the
67.Fa id
68argument is not valid.
69.El
70.Sh SEE ALSO
71.Xr _umtx_op 2 ,
72.Xr thr_exit 2 ,
73.Xr thr_kill 2 ,
74.Xr thr_kill2 2 ,
75.Xr thr_new 2 ,
76.Xr thr_set_name 2 ,
77.Xr pthread_getthreadid_np 3 ,
78.Xr pthread_self 3
79.Sh STANDARDS
80The
81.Fn thr_self
82system call is non-standard and is used by
83.Lb libthr
84to implement
85.St -p1003.1-2001
86.Xr pthread 3
87functionality.
88.Sh HISTORY
89The
90.Fn thr_self
91system call first appeared in
92.Fx 5.2 .
93